Remarkable and stunning images show the first time that a disabled sea turtle was able to swim after being fitted with a prosthetic flipper. Rocky, who is between 25 and 30 years old, had been using a ...

That reaction is common among Buzzards Bay boaters startled to observe sea turtles swimming alongside their vessels, said Karen Dourdeville of Marion, coordinator of the Sea Turtle Sightings Hotline, ...

Bigger is better, if you're a leatherback sea turtle. For the first time, researchers have measured the forces that act on a swimming animal and the energy the animal must expend to move through the ...

Life looked grim for Yu, a loggerhead turtle, when she washed up in a Japanese fishing net five years ago, her front flippers shredded after a brutal encounter with a shark. Now keepers at an aquarium ...

Goody the sea turtle lost her left flipper years ago after she got stuck in a fishing net. She was left immobile — until a team of researchers in Thailand fitted her with the country's first ...

See these adorable baby turtles swim into the ocean for the first time. The turtles are Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, the most endangered species of sea turtle. The send-off is part of efforts to protect ...

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Freshwater and sea turtles may look similar, but neither one could survive in the other's territory for these reasons.

FLORIDA KEYS (CBSMiami) - Found weak and floating on his side in the waters off the Keys, OD the green sea turtle was rescued and rehabilitated for almost five years and is now living it up in his new ...

Beaches are generally still safe. Experts issue warning after swimmers are attacked by unexpected culprits: 'The pain was so ...

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